A Chicago Weekend

Never fails. We are sad leaving Chicago but for a quick short weekend, we had a wonderful time especially when the perfect fall weather sets in. Sunny and in the high 60s. Crisp cold air and the smell of early fall, glorious weather indeed!

how was your weekend? 

Scenes from Halloween

HALLOWEEN 2012

Yesterday's halloween was so much fun. The day started with the annual school's halloween day parade and classroom party. The kids get to wear their favorite costumes (they were all so cute!) and enjoyed a post-parade party with arts and crafts, sweet treats and a party favor to take home. 

By the time i picked up Aston from school, I can tell he was pooped. But he was a trooper as he knows later in the evening he has a whole block to T or T. His cousins Daniel and David - Ailynne's boys - were our early trick or treaters, so we headed out and finished the rest of the night with them. Oh, and we also crashed a neighbor's block party - all in good fun! 

Pumpkin Patch from the Past

See, our son is now 5. He thinks he's too hip for the pumpkin patch now. I would still want him to have pictures at the pumpkin patch but he's putting on the breaks and would just love to watch the little babies frolic at the patch.

So, i'm staring at this precious moment back in time in 2010 where he smiled and posed. It actually made it to our holiday card that we decided to do Thanksgiving card that year instead of Christmas. Uhm, can we bring my baby back? 

Custom Thanksgiving card by WHHostess 

Weekend Scenes

Hello Monday! 

Tought I'd start the week with a few scenes from the past 2 days. 

It was a lovely weekend and we got a little tease of the nice weather. Although very brief, it was still a treat. 

Our little family enjoyed an al fresco lunch at our favorite burger joint, Guru. After that we indulged ourselves with starbuck's salted caramel latte and i discovered they also offer them in cakepops. we had both - double trouble! So yummy! 

Then on Sunday after church, we had brunch at Blu while waiting for the Texans game and had fun cheering them on on one of their best games ever. I had their french toast, which I think was pretty good. 

I'm in a pink kick lately. a few weeks ago my seashell pink vaio arrived and just had to order a monogram decal for it. I absolutely love it! I also happen to see this pretty pink Nikon at a recent Best Buy trip and I think I found the first item on my christmas wishlist! So cute! 

We have moved to our new home almost 4 years ago and I am now just ordering my drapes. We currently have roman fabric shades in our family room in a beige neutral color and we wanted to add some color and pattern to our walls. the two fabrics above are what we picked at High Fashion Home and can't wait to share how it's going to look when it's all done.

 The celadon patterned (right pic above) one will go into our formal dining which will pick up some of the green of our antique chinese wooden screen (see pic below). The galatia brown will go in our 2-storey family room, it's dramatic quatrefoil-like pattern will add an elegant look to that bigger room. 

And speaking of home decor, I finally busted out some mini gourds and pumpkins along with a few crystal turkeys and displayed them on the  tiered wire tray i previously used here. The turkeys may be a little premature but hey, they're cute. I'll be redecorating, moving furniture and sprucing up our whole place in anticipation for the holidays. So excited for the cooler weather, football season and the holidays in general. And here was last year's home decor display as well as this one !

i hope the week has started great for everybody! 

Fall Decorating

Take a peek at our home's most recent fall decor. I'm far from done but it's now coming along nicely.

I will share some more pictures once I've updated our fireplace mantel as well. I'm thinking more ghourds and burlap and some pretty fall flowers. 

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